taking
action has many levels,
from taking the time to learn about whats really going on around us
and sharing that info, to direct action like blockades and marches.
every little bit helps. do not be put off by media allusions to hopelessness.
or a sense that it's all too big to deal with. do not be put off by
anything. let your heart guide you in this. do what you feel and connect
with others who are also taking action

Nuclear
Power! No way! It
now looks like Gordon Brown and Tony Blair are pressing ahead with
plans to re-commission Trident,
a 200+ nuclear missile 'deterrent', made and controlled by the US
government.. at a cost of upto 76 billion pounds, over ten years,
to the UK taxpayers .....!! nuts!Here's
a quick and easy ongoing petition, called Option
10 that was presented to the UK govenrment March 31st, 2006, that
clearly states what can be done, that would be safe, sustainable and
possible, instead of expanding the 'civilian' nuclear power station
network. The same that produces 'depleted uranium' .......as seen
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo! Now is a really good time to join
CND.

Why
not check on your local MP to see their voting record on the this
and other subjects, at they
work for you.com ? You can also write to them at writetothem.com
to let them know you know. It's fun, and feels good. It also puts
on record your objections, and their replies to your emails.

Swedens
2006 announcement that it will be fossil fuel and nuclear fuel
free by 2020 is good news for us all. It shows that another world
is possible. Join up with any CND groups you can, and write, email
and pester your representatives.

Brian
Haw 2000+ days on the pavement outside Parliament!An
awesome achievement and a fine example to us all. Inspite of
near constant police harrasment, arrests, court appearances and the
odd aggressive 'passer-by' Brian has maintained his protest, his demonstration
of his intense love for the children of this world, a love we would
all feel and act on were it not for our fear ..... the mortgage, job
and girlfriend were not good enough excuses for Brian to excuse the
UK Foreign Office and UK Military for carrying out genocidal policies
against the Iraqi people, bombing them with DU weapons since 1991,
the damage caused by 13 years of economic sanctions, policies which
led to the excess deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children in the 12 years
from 1991 to 2003, policies which according to Madelaine Albright,
US ambassador to the UK, were considered "worth the price"
in political circles. Brian is a man of heart and conscience. Check
out Brians website hereand be inspired!

Iraqi Casualties! In January 2006 an international team of epidemiologists
headed by Les Robertsof
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, completed a cluster
sample survey of excess mortality in Iraq.
Its findings contradicted central elements of what politicians and
journalists had presented to the US/UK public and the world. After
excluding any possible statistical anomalies, they estimated that
at least 98,000 Iraqi civilians had died in the previous 18 months
as a direct result of the invasion and occupation of their country.
They also found that violence had become the leading cause of death
in Iraq during that period. Their most significant finding was that
the vast majority (79 percent) of violent deaths were caused by
coalition forces using helicopter gunships, rockets
or other forms of aerial weaponry, and that almost half (48
percent) of these were children, with a median age of 8. The total
excess deaths since the invasion started range between 340,000 and
948,000. read more here

Why
not check on your local MP to see their voting record on the Iraq
war, at they
work for you.com ? You can also write to them at writetothem.com
to let them know you know. It's fun, and feels good. It also puts
on record your objections, and their replies to your emails. How the
media are burying the lancet report details here

The
US/UK Governments are putting on the pressure for military action against
Iran for doing what they are already doing themselves - based
on bogus allegations that Iran is developing Nuclear Weapons, in breach
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the UNs Atomic
Inspectors, the IAEA, say is totally unfounded. There's a real risk
that 'battle-field' nuclear weapons will be used in this planned attack!
The UK is in breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if they
re-commission Trident. If the claim that Iran is in breach of the treaty
is reason given for the US to threaten to attack them, will the US then
also attack the UK? I think not! read more here

Legislative
and Regualtory ReformUnnoticed
by the majority, pretty much unmentioned by the mainstream media,
the government has quietly slipped through legislation that is being
called the "Abolition of Parliament Bill", the "Totalitarianism
Bill", and other equally scary names. Its real name is the "Legislative
and Regulatory Reform Bill", and it threatens to bypass normal
Parliamentary controls, and make it almost impossible to stop government
ministers from enacting any law they like. Recent statements seem
to indicate that it is to be used to rush through clearance for Trident,
and to avoid regulatory 'burdens' on issues such as dealing with nuclear
waste, house building, privatisation, closure of local hospitals and
so on. So please, please take look at the campaign against the current
attempts by 'UK Executive' (Prime Ministers Office) to obliterate
parliaments ability to check and control government ministers here

Tony
Blair promisedto democratise the House
of Lords over the course of his premiership. Instead he has
been handing out peerages to business leaders and cronies. Democracy
is more than a vote, it is active involvement in the process of legislation
and demands transparency, integrity and healthy debate. Democracy
only works when it is participative. Take your part in it seriously.
Write to him to remind him of his promise......

One
of the more recent bad, and very ugly ideas this Government wanted
to implement was to broaden the ability of the police and others to
committ people to psychiatric 'care' and
even more obscene, to make it legal to force people to take 'medication'
once they had been so committed. The 'chemical cosh' as it is known.
The terminology regarding the broadening of these powers and the circumstances
around which committal proposals could be made were so vague that
they could include anyone labelled as an extremist. The House of Lords,
in January 2007, rejected such proposals, on human rights grounds,
though the media continues to play up the issues, with sensationalist
reporting of the relatively few murders that occur that are committed
by people who have been labelled as 'schizophrenic' ... or 'at risk'.
The real agenda behind these moves is, imo, to create a legal pretext
for dealing with activists and other 'problem' people by throwing
them into asylums...six months under the chemical cosh is enough to
destroy most peoples minds,,.... in fact, it is known that a few people
in Government would quite happily describe Brian Haw as being 'mad'
.............. yet is he? I for one would argue that he is extremely
sane, and more to the point, a principled and deeply spirited humane
being. Tony Blair, on the other hand. .......??

Why
not check on your local MP, be they Labour, Conservative, Independent
or Liberal Democrat, to see their voting record on the this Bill and
others , at
they work for you.com ? You can also write to them at writetothem.com
to let them know you know and to suggest best practice. It's fun,
and feels good. It also puts on record your objections, and their
replies to your emails.